Bob Costas just did an anti-gun editorial during half time of Sunday Night Football

[patrice]

81. reductio ad absurdum - no one's even remotely proposing such an idiot thing. In fact, I haven't even

seen hardly anyone proposing a ban on handguns. People are just stating the problem. I think there's something to the point that this football player would have done something else, if he had not had a gun, so it IS his own problem with himself that this happened, but it is also because of the gun that this guy's problem with himself resulted in the death of this mother and his own suicide, because were it not for the gun, and had he done something else by some other means because he was a messed up person to begin with, whatever else he might have done with whatever would have had a significantly less probable chance of resulting in death.

So what we have here is a personal flaw magnified by a specific instrument in a manner that is hard to replicate by other means. One thing, the personality flaw, or the gun, would NOT have been as significant as it became without the other.

Now, what all of that means solution-wise, I. don't. know. - because it IS apparent that there will be no ban on handguns, but that fact does not mean that we can just continue to pretend that gun ownership does not have the very serious and significant consequences it VERY VERY often, way TOO often, does have.